Part I.Setting the stage

Introduction: State of the art of research on language isolates2

Iker Salaberri

Dorota Krajewska

Ekaitz Santazilia

Eneko Zuloaga

Part II.Typological features of isolates vs. non-isolates

Is there a typological profile of isolates?22

Marine Vuillermet

David Inman

Natalia Chousou-Polydouri

Kellen Parker van Dam

Shelece Easterday

Françoise Rose

The Amuric language family: Why so exotic?48

Ekaterina Gruzdeva

Juha Janhunen

An Austronesian-type voice system in an Amazonian isolate71

Katharina Haude

Etymologies in a language isolate: Methodological aspects and a proposal to evaluate their quality104

Julen Manterola

The Small Bang: A pilot study investigating the origins of a language and population isolate through loan words142

Abbie Hantgan

Combining disparate lines of evidence in the study of the history of language isolates, exemplified with Mochica from Northern Peru176

Matthias Urban

The Múra doculects and Múra-Pirahã historical linguistics208

Fernando O. de Carvalho

Baroque accretions and isolation: A case study of grammatical complexity in complex social situations in Solomon Islands248

Angela Terrill

California isolates: Language contact and genetic classification270

Carmen Dagostino

One language or two? The arbitrariness of isolate classifications in New Guinea306

Antoinette Schapper

Subject index

Language index

Name index